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Impressionism is often considered the final nineteenth-century precursor to the radical experimentation of modernism. But every style has a precursorso what movements paved the way for the atmospheric light, color, and composition characteristic of the impressionist works themselves?

The Musée des Beaux Arts, Reims, offers a choice selection of nineteenth-century French paintings that trace the history of French art from the Romantics, to the School of Barbizon and the circle of Honfleur, up to Impressionism. This beautifully illustrated volume follows the artistic forebears that led up to the works of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, by way of pastel palettes, loose brushwork, ordinary figures, and natural landscapes.

Anna Eva-Bergman (1909–87) is regarded as one of the most important painters of the twentieth
century in Norway, though she was long overshadowed by her husband, the painter Hans Hartung. After the 1940s, Bergman concentrated on abstraction in painting, her ...

As the creator of monumental and sculptural designs in public spaces, Heinz Mack is a
patron of human encounters in metropolitan settings. The book, written by the artist, is dedicated to an œuvre that spans over more than fifty years ...

The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich houses one of the finest and most famous collections
of drawings and prints in Germany, with holdings of around 400,000 works ranging from the fifteenth century to modernity. Published to accompany an exhibition at ...

Europe is a maritime continent, its history and culture decisively shaped by the exploration and
use of the surrounding seas. For Europeans, the sea has long served as a space of rule and trade, bridge and border, resource and desire. ...

No photographer came close to capturing the sensations, scandals, and catastrophes of 1930s and ’40s
New York like Weegee (1899–1968). His striking images—captured through his uncanny ability to be on the spot and ready to shoot when things happened—have become ...

Cities today have become portfolios of investment properties with token patches of green. The cost
to live in a fortress-like luxury housing complex in London or Manhattan is so high that most of us can’t afford it. As the masses ...

Austrian sculptor Mario Dilitz is celebrated for his works that combine classic sculptural knowledge and
technical perfection with contemporary artistic ideas and questions. His pieces give profound expression to the human form, while trying to convey a sense of the ...

The precision in the works of Otto Marseus van Schriekthe inventor of the sottobosco still
lifecontinue to fascinate viewers to this day. Always directing the viewer’s gaze towards reality, often with gruesome detail, this seventeenth-century Amsterdam painter’s works show a ...